Latin America News – Pope Francis was received on Saturday by the president of Uruguay, José Mujica, in the Vatican Apostolic Palace.
The Vatican spokesman, said the private hearing lasted about 45 minutes and Francisco said he was “very happy to have met a wise man.”
Mujica, 78, was received by the Pope with a hug. Before their meeting, recalled a “mutual friend” now deceased, Uruguayan writer and theologian Methol Alberto Ferré (1929-2009).
Uruguay’s president gave the pontiff a composition with three statuettes style of the gauchos and Methol book itself Alver Ferré and Metalli, “The Latin America in the XXI century “.
Pope Francisco, meanwhile, Mujica gave him a copy of the conclusions of the Assembly of Latin American Bishops in Aparecida. “You can look at the index and see the topics that interest you,” he said.
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